From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NClRh-0000pf-R9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:48:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A899E0781; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFFAE0781 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.15] (bl12-236-252.dsl.telepac.pt [85.245.236.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51B512C346 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B0B4947.5060906@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:47:35 -0100 From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090830) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-foundation-announce] Gentoo Foundation Inc - Ballot References: <1258490360.3813.1@NeddySeagoon> In-Reply-To: <1258490360.3813.1@NeddySeagoon> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c2e8818b-c311-4ae2-a0f8-b217d7709004 X-Archives-Hash: 1595288ba6d106fb28cab46db4ee1baa -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roy Bamford wrote: > All, > > The Gentoo Foundation Inc. has been approached by a few large > Gentoo users about purchasing advertising on the gentoo.org side > bar. They are not in the IT industry so cannot support us in the > traditional way, by donating their own product. > > The trustees anticipate that more approaches of this nature will be > received and view it as a sign of Gentoo maturing. > > Recognising that this would be a break with tradition, by allowing > even major users to contribute to Gentoo in this way the trustees > determined to put the question to a vote of Foundation members. > > The recording date for the vote will be 29th November. To vote, > your Foundation membership must be approved on or before that date. > > > Voting will be from 1 December to 11 December, to enable the result > to be available for the next Trustee meeting on 13 December. > > The motion to be voted on will be Should major Gentoo users be > permitted to purchase ads on the sidebar - Vote yes or No Roy, are there any "limits" to the type of advertisements that the Foundation will permit? I expect that the Trustees will do some filtering regardless, but are we going to create a "policy" on the type of advertisements that are to be permitted? > > The trustees recommend that the motion on the ballot is supported. > > > On behalf of the Gentoo Foundation Inc. > Although I consider this to be a significant change, I hope it won't affect Gentoo's spirit, that it may help foster support for Gentoo and that we can make the best use of these resources for our community. - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksLSUcACgkQcAWygvVEyALhZwCgmnKQf9E3p4V9lFlL8QI/nXOY uu4Anj5pj1WgsyC5PsUTeU+6JSGmmjB3 =AmBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----